Introducing Accedian's new V-NID™ product suite. An application-oriented performance assurance solution that assures the end-user experience of specific applications by simulating real application traffic flows across the cloud. With the introduction of the V-NID suite, Accedian now delivers to service providers more application-focused insight than can be provided by traditional OAM solutions.

Application Performance Assurance across the Cloud

At the heart of our new V-NID solution is the V-NID Actuator which sends emulated traffic to V-NID agents located in Accedian's MetroNID®, MetroNODE 10GE™, or other network elements. Using a patented, high-accuracy one-way delay measurement technique, the V-NID Actuator can also assure the performance of specific applications without requiring synchronized hardware test points at each end of the connection. The V-NID Actuator gathers Ethernet OAM, as well as application-specific performance data which is then summarized and displayed by VisionAnalyzer™ in a visual performance monitoring dashboard. A centralized approach enables the V-NID Actuator located in the core of the network to remotely assure end-to-end performance by communicating with the V-NID agents residing at the edge.

The V-NID Suite consists of:

V-NID - An embedded application performance monitoring agent implemented in the Accedian MetroNID and MetroNODE 10GE platforms, as well as other network elements.

V-NID Actuator - Sends and receives active performance assurance messages to and from the V-NIDs

V-NID Manager - Manages configuration and collects raw performance data

VisionAnalyzer™ -Software tool that summarizes and creates dashboard reports of per-flow performance